Book Spine Poetry: A Delightful Form of Found Poetry

I just discovered Book Spine Poetry.Quinn McDonald described it in a blog called "Quinn Creative." You simply stack up a few books, and each title becomes a line of a poem. When I started putting my stacks together, my husband looked puzzled and finally said, "It's a good way to trick yourself into sorting the bookshelves."  Later a friend came over.  She got it right away.

I found that many books start with "The" and that gets in the way of a good poem.  Finding a book that starts with a preposition or gerund is golden.  And it works better if you ignore the subtitles.

You can "write" as many lines as you wish, but I like the sound of a four-line poem.

Here is my first attempt at Book Spine Poetry.  I'll post the photo first, followed by the poem typed out.

Two old women

Living on the edge

In the land of white death.

Snowstruck.

The everlasting man

Walking on water,

Swimming with giants,

In search of birds and wild places.

To be a slave,

Hostage to the devil,

The worst hard time,

No end in sight.

The Orthodox way,

The way of a pilgrim,

Path to sanity,

A tiny step away from deepest faith.